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Casey Muratori talks about this in his Handmade Hero videos. I believe he calls it exploration-based programming.

Yeah, this is not a new concept and I remember seeing one of his videos that explains this concept really well. Here the relevant video from 9 years ago for those uninitiated:

https://youtu.be/jlcmxvQfzKQ?si=zmKT9a3yK5R4Wmg4

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